Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] it the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the price it is , the sooner I can find a buyer for it the happier I 'll be . ’ |
| 2 | Beneath the neural groove runs the notochord ( Figure 1e ) and on either side of it the paraxial mesoderm . |
| 3 | She was convinced something was moving about in there , though when she shone a light on it the little thing disappeared down the hole . |
| 4 | And was found dead at the base of it the next morning ? ’ |
| 5 | In the second issue of It the front page , and most of the second , had been dominated by excerpts from Pound 's war-time broadcasts from fascist Italy to the allies . |
| 6 | Yeah they went to work in it the next day . |
| 7 | And that was the only time that I 've fired a rifle cos , well actually I went got , rose to a corporal I was a corporal when they finished and erm I was in er made cor lance corporal and then I was er with a heavy Vickers machine gun , that 's the one with the has water cooled casing on it the big heavy one you see , and I was with that , that team . |
| 8 | special name for it the square root . |
| 9 | Having found a food-source in the evening , they will fly straight back to it the following morning , still guiding themselves by the sun even though it is now in the east and not the west . |
| 10 | I did n't take much notice of it the first few years after I left school , but now I 've been gone , what , fifteen years or so , I find quite a lot of interest in what 's happened . |
| 11 | From a canoe the view was even more restricted : the looming hinterland was there , but was the beach below it the right landfall ? |
| 12 | watched a documentary on it the other night and he said even by kicking someone now , if you do n't have n't , is n't an accident it 's like kissing someone you |
| 13 | For example , in many classrooms pupils can be found discussing the differences in vocabulary there would be between an on-the-spot oral account of a road accident and a newspaper report of it the following day ; or considering the ways in which conventional spellings can be violated in advertisements and brand names ; or listing some of the differences between their grandparents ' use of language and their own ; or talking about the way a poet 's choice of metaphor yokes together two dissimilar things so that something familiar is suddenly perceived in a new way ; and so on . |
| 14 | When you reach the end of it the second time , you start driving down it again and now you can see some things which seem to have changed considerably while others seem exactly the same . |
| 15 | Getting through the day , with her bed at the end of it the only goal , absorbed all her energies . |
| 16 | First , where the rehearing was by the same body or some more complete form of it the general rule was that defects at the original hearing could be cured . |
| 17 | He saw the house as it had once been , in his childhood — still , ordered , each thing in it the finest and most beautiful example of its kind . |
| 18 | I phoned your lot from it the other night . |
| 19 | Anyway when they had a good look at it the front half was an Escort and the back half was an Orion , half a stolen car . |
| 20 | it did not pacify Madge , he wrote , and when he told her they could have another go at it the following month she told him she had had enough . |
| 21 | On the face of it the latter view certainly seems the more rational , since the two states in question appear to contain elements that are inherently irreconcilable . |
| 22 | On the face of it the two seats should split evenly between the two big parties — North east to the Conservatives and South West to Labour . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , the old man had a wry sense of humour though on the face of it the other provisions in his will are probably more important . |
| 24 | On the face of it the first SAS operation had been a total disaster . |
| 25 | On the face of it the thermal noise appears to dominate . |
| 26 | I remember waking with my face in it the first whole night we spent together . |